Calderdale

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Duration: 35 minutes

There are surprises in store for Aled Jones on a mystery tour in West Yorkshire, involving all kinds of transport and people who are passionate about the beautiful Calder Valley. Plus glorious hymn singing from Halifax Minster.

Music played

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  • Immortal Invisible Congregation at Halifax Minster

    Tune: St Denio (Welsh hymn melody) Words: W. Chalmers Smith (1824-1908) Source: Songs of Praise Hymnbook #10 Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright Organist: David Houlder

  • LORD OF ALL HOPEFULNESS Congregation at Halifax Minster

    Tune: Slane Music: Irish trad melody Words: Jan Struther (Joyce Placzek) (1901-53) © Oxford University Press from "Enlarged Songs of Praise 1931" Source: Songs of Praise Hymnbook #303 Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright Organist: David Houlder

  • THE LORD’S MY SHEPHERD Congregation at Halifax Minster

    Words/music: Stuart Townend © 1996 Kingway’s Thankyou Music, PO Box 75, Eastbourne, East Sussex. BN23 6NW Source: Worship Today # 406 Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright Organist: David Houlder

  • FATHER, HEAR THE PRAYER WE OFFER Congregation at Halifax Minster

    Tune: Sussex Words: Love Maria Willis (1824-1908) and others. Composer: English trad melody coll. And adapted by R Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Source: Songs of Praise Hymnbook # SOP 325 Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Organist: David Houlder.

  • FAIREST LORD JESUS Congregation at Halifax Minster

    Tune: St Elizabeth Composer: Silesian Melody from Schleswige Volkelieder, Leipzig, 1842 Words: Münster Gesangbuch, 1677 Tr. Lilian Stevenson, 1870-1960, and others Source: Church Hymnary, Third Edition Publisher: Oxford University Press Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Organist: David Houlder.

  • FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH Congregation at Halifax Minster

    Tune: Lucerna Laudoniae Music: David Evans (1874-1948) Words: F.S. Pierpoint (1835-1917) altd. Source: Songs of Praise hymnbook # 222 Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Organist: David Houlder.

  • BLESSED ASSURANCE Congregation at Halifax Minster

    Music: P. Knapp (1839-1908) Words: Fanny Crosby (Frances van Alstyne) 1820-1915 Source: Songs of Praise hymnbook # 288 Conductor: Paul Leddington Wright. Organist: David Houlder.

  • Factsheet 15th January 2012

    There are surprises in store for Aled Jones on a mystery tour in West Yorkshire. Plus glorious hymn singing from Halifax Minster.

  • Interviews

    Nick Wilding, Local Historian.

    Aled and Nick take a trip on a canal boat and discover the origins of some very unusual place names.

    Stephen Hall, Mountain Bike Instructor.

    Aled talks to Mountain Bike Instructor Stephen Hall and finds out how careering through the great outdoors can bring you closer to God.

    Tina & Stuart Clayton, Paulinus Way Project.

    Aled heads to the pub to discover why Tina and Stuart Clayton are now enjoying a hard earned rest.

    Pam Warhurst, Incredible Edible.

    Aled meets one of Incredible Edible’s founders to discover why the residents of Todmorden are digging their vegetables.

Credits

Series Editor
David Taviner
Presenter
Aled Jones
Producer
Pamela Hossick
Executive Producer
Tommy Nagra

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